Graveling in Boston Cogal

It is a gravel/dirt Cogal. This route was used last September for another ride and is supposedly AWESOME!!!

You will need 28mm at a minimum, maybe 32 mm tires on gravel/CX bikes per the description.

Here’s a link to the route/description/etc from the September ride but this one is by us, not the cycling shop, but all are welcome of course! The write up mentions registering/meals/etc. None of that applies to us.

Details on pre-ride espresso/pre-night drinking in Boston/post ride recovery drinking is forthcoming but mark your calendars for this puppy!!!

It will be a GREAT Heck of the North appetizer for anyone thinking about heading out there in October as well!!!

What’s the tire recommendation for this route? I’m going to have to buy new tires for Rasputitsa, but this ride will have an impact on final choice.

I’m looking at either the Challenge Grifo XS or Strade Bianca, both in clincher form.

I’m riding CX 32 mm tires but Roger would know better as he has ridden this route before.

So I bought new 28 mm tires specifically for this ride only to find out that they won’t fit because my wheel has the slightest hop in it. Now I’ve got to bring it to the shop to see if they can fix it. *sigh*

YES!!! One month out, folks! Time to tune up the Gravel/CX rig and get some k’s in! Still working on pre-ride Espresso place and post ride drinks but we will be there in Spades, BABY!!! Even though my name is Mr. Rogers (DOCTOR Roigers that is! I didn’t spend 6 years in evil medical school to be called Mister!) Roger will know where to get the pre-and-post drinks better than I as it is his neighborhood, not mine.

Now it’s time for me to grow a pair, dust off the guns, channel the V, whatever other cliche’ I can come up with and go for my first outside ride of the the season. Lightly snowing here at West Point and windy as FUCK but the air temp is zero celcius so I cannot complain compared to most of you Northerners!

Just might do this. The closest I have to a gravel bike is a Trek Portland for bad weather and errands. I’d strip the fenders and rack, but it’s still a heavy beast. Would 28 mm tires work?

Do IT!!! Yes, sure, 28 mm tires should work per the write up (and if not, we’ll make it work!!!). This is purely a shit-shooting, fun ride without egos! I am riding a steel CX beast that must weight at least 13 kilos!

Awesome!

And MJ, not sure about a bike but I imgaine that Roger MUST know of something. Not sure if he has checked this site recently.

Do you still have his or my private email form the 200-on-100 and the West Point Cogals? If so, shoot either him or me an email and we will work something out!

ok, last minute change ofplans. not even going to run this by buck. unbeknowst to me, there was already an offroad ride scheduled for this day. I would like to nix the original route, and we do the bigger ride instead. distance wise it is shorter, but it’ll be dope. rolls-out from same location, 10am, but there is food along the way and all sorts of other noms. i dont think anyone will be disappointed, seriously.

hope everyone can make it. there is likely going to be a slew of people here that morning, so look for at least two v-kits clammering around

ok, last minute change ofplans. not even going to run this by buck. unbeknowst to me, there was already an offroad ride scheduled for this day. I would like to nix the original route, and we do the bigger ride instead. distance wise it is shorter, but it’ll be dope. rolls-out from same location, 10am, but there is food along the way and all sorts of other noms. i dont think anyone will be disappointed, seriously.

hope everyone can make it. there is likely going to be a slew of people here that morning, so look for at least two V-kits clammering around

Sounds AWESOME!!!

Folks, only 5 more days until the Cogal in Boston! Be there and be like Meb on a bike, BABY!!!

CrazyA$$!!! Ton of single track through the woods with wet roots, getting loat every five minutes, mud holes that sucked the life outnofnyour tires and legs and long wooden walk bridges over swamps all in 5 degree C weather with rain … In other words, it was fuckin Awesome!

Not a whole lot of gravel or dirt roads but tons of hilly, crazy, muddy, wet single track shit. A few guys were on mtn bikes and they were in heaven.

I’ll second Buck’s assessment. A good chill in the air, lots of mud, single track, roots, boulders, slick wooden platforms, and more roots. Oh, and the driveways we kept turning into that occasionally had a trailhead at the end. So many driveways! And mud. And muddy meadows. I had an absolute blast and would do it again in a heartbeat. Also of note, Roger was sporting some serious V on his wicked nice steed. That’s what happens when one’s V-kit gets ripped at just the right/wrong spot on one’s derriÃ¨re.